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  • adjective Not having been greeted; unwelcomed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ greeted

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Examples

  • She would have passed me ungreeted had I not confronted her way.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Before I could recover my sight, the lady of my love had disappearedirreparably affronted at what she chose to consider my premeditated rudeness in passing her by ungreeted.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Murray, meanwhile, has been conspicuously ungreeted by my grandparents during all of the helloing, being only gruntingly acknowledged.

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

  • The Boy preferred to come and go like that, ungreeted and unquestioned, and the Tenor of course humoured this harmless peculiarity with the rest.

    The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand

  • She would have passed me ungreeted, had I not confronted her way.

    Chapter 17 1915

  • Five sultry days had I spent wandering unnoticed, ungreeted, and disdained, an alien in a hostile land, tolerated but unwelcome.

    Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • She reached her flat rock and sank upon its moss ungreeted.

    The Highgrader William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • She would have passed me ungreeted had I not confronted her way.

    The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

  • What could possibly be the meaning of the unwonted spectacle of the most powerful of living men, pale, terrified, dishevelled, ungreeted and ungreeting, unattended even by a single slave, running at full speed, though with his knees trembling under him, and often stumbling on the road?

    Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

  • Richard followed the heralds at a foot's pace, alone, ungreeted by any.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

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